@LeoB13 Well, the adults in question in E) are the ones making the decision to consume harmful substances, while the stimulus (when it is saying "except to prevent negative effects on others") would be talking about people NOT making the decision to consume said substances e.g. the way we would talk about people suffering the consequences of secondhand smoke (because they are NOT the ones who made the decision to smoke).

E) is only talking about the adults who make the decision to consume the harmful substances, and the effects of their decisions on themselves, not on others. Therefore, the sufficient condition of '/Implemented to prevent negative effects on others' is triggered, but the resultant necessary condition of '/Implemented' is violated. So E) most clearly is inconsistent with the stim.

At least that's how I saw it, hopefully that helps. I think it requires some intuitive understanding also of what it means to encourage personal responsibility in adults.

Oh. Inconsistent. lol

My dumb ass forgot about freshwater fish. Just utterly forgot. Not even a hint of that thought entered my mind. lol

Are there any questions similar to this one? I've gotten this one wrong twice now and would like to practice somehow

For some reason, as I was doing this question in the timed test, I thought it was parallel flaw, so I wasted a full minute and a half trying to decipher what the non-existent flaw was lmfao

@TBD I thought the same thing lmfao

What the actual fuck was this question

I read the stimulus, picked out the flaw correctly, and then I just shit the bed in interpreting these horribly worded answers, I guess lol.

@TingZhu I didn't even notice it until blind review - i wrote it off because i thought it said pleasing. F*ck

@ChristopherTobin I understand both your rage and your later conclusion. I see both in myself right now

i only got this right due to process of elimination. I only kept D because I didn't understand it and therefore it could have been right. lol

Yeah, 16 just slipped right by me. I struggled with this passage under timed conditions - for some reason, it was exceptionally difficult for me to spot the author's voice in this one in a way I haven't really experienced before

12/13 on 2 five star difficulty passages - not bad by any means. Timing is going to be tough. I keep trying to apply the reading strategies we've learned but I do go slower on the reading than I (and 7Sage, apparently) would like.

A minute over time only because I eliminated B on the first pass. Just read too fast and did not make the appropriate connections. But when I shallow dove on the rest and saw they were all incorrect, I went back to A and B, saw that B was SOLIDLY analogous and chose it. Time is a killer.

I'm so glad you laid out the same thought process I had with the stimulus before diving into the answers. I legitimately had no idea what the flaw was and it did not click until I read C.

@lauetal thank you for making me legitimately laugh after bombing this question.

@CMas 100%. Gut said C at first but then I went between C and D because I started thinking about these exact assumptions.

5/5, but both Q2 and Q4 really tripped me up...3 min over time on the former, 2 on the latter. Something about the phrasing on those questions - think I will need to re-review conditional indicators again.

4/5 correct, fixed on the blind review to 5/5. Fell for the trap in Q5 :( oh well, onward!